Atlantic Books

An original and compelling history of the northern European medieval renaissance in art, science and philosophy, which rivalled its Italian counterpart, by the author of The Florentines and The Borgias.

A sweeping history of the Age of Reason, which shows how, although it was a time of progress in many areas, it was also an era of brutality and intolerance, by the author of The Borgias and The Florentines.

Focusing on key characters from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries, including Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Newton, Descartes, Spinoza, Louis XIV and Charles I, Dark Brilliance is a fascinating and wide-ranging history that explores the human costs of imposing progress and modernity.

A sweeping 400-year history of the Florentines who gave birth to the Renaissance, by the author of The Medici and The Borgias.

An 'essential book for 2023', as selected by the Irish Examiner

A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost mathematicians.

Award-winning Steven Strogatz, one of the foremost popularisers of maths, has written a witty and fascinating account of maths' most compelling ideas and how, so often, they are an integral part of everyday life.

What if the person you love the most hurt more than any other? What if that person was your own mother? Maine - the huge American summer bestseller - is now available in paperback.

Tackles race, wealth and family as a young black man finds the American Dream dissolving around him.

In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential comes an insider's look into the cloistered world of classical music. Now a major Amazon.com TV series starring Gabriel Garcia Bernal.

An original and fascinating history of Dublin that tells the story of the city through its bridges.

A fascinating and entertaining historical investigation into what makes Ireland so different from its neighbours and why that led to independence.